I have never opened with the QP – on principle.
BOBBY FISCHERI have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.
More Bobby Fischer Quotes
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I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.
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People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.
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Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!
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This is not just my struggle, I’m not just doing this for myself… This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They’re a menace to the whole world.
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They spoke about Capablanca with awe. I have never seen people speak about any chess player like that, before or since.
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In my opinion, the King’s Gambit is busted. It loses by force.
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Is it against the law to kill a reporter?
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Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.
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I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.
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Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?
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When I win, I’ll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I’ll give players a chance to beat me.
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The system set up by F.I.D.E. … Insures that there will always be a Russian world champion… The Russians arranged it that way.
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The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.
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Genius. It’s a word. What does it really mean? If I win I’m a genius. If I don’t, I’m not.
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The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian…
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In chess so much depends on opening theory, so the champions before the last century did not know as much as I do and other players do about opening theory.
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I can remember times coming home from a chess club at four in the morning when I was half asleep and half dead and forcing myself to pray an hour and study an hour. You know, I was half out of my mind-stoned almost.
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A lot of people have come up with other rules of chess-type games, with 10×8 boards, new pieces, and all kinds of things.
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That’s what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one
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I don’t keep any close friends. I don’t keep any secrets. I don’t need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that’s all.
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If you have seen one Alekhine game you’ve seen them all.
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I don’t remember one thing I learned in school.
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I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.
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All I want to do, ever, is play chess.
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They asked me what year it was, what month it was, etc. I easily answered these stupid questions.
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The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
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